The Canoe and the Crown: Canada’s Past — and Its Path Forward

By Eliot Pence

The Canoe and the Crown: Canada’s Past — and Its Path Forward Dominion Dialogues Nov 10, 2025 14 3 Share Subscribe By Eliot Pence Canada has always been a country of two stories. One is written in Hansard debates and legislative preambles, etched into marble in Ottawa and celebrated every July 1. The other is told in logbooks, oral histories, and fading maps — a history of canoes cutting through blackwater rivers, of trading posts rising in remote forests, of men and women pushing beyond the known. Both are true. But only one can guide us into the century ahead. The official story of Canada be

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